Some 40 Jewish settlements that were placed (often by Mr. Sharon) deep inside heavily populated Palestinian areas must be uprooted in the Clinton compromise, but doing so now could trigger civil strife in Israel.
There were also appeals for unity amid fears that repeated atrocities by al-Shabaab might trigger inter-communal strife.
It would bring an end to the division of Cyprus, removing the main potential trigger of fresh strife between Turkey and Greece.
At the same time, some officials here — including some American diplomats — express worry that releasing the report will actually trigger new civil strife.
A bird's-eye view of the data suggests that since the bombing of a revered Shiite mosque in February 2006 triggered severe sectarian strife, Sunnis generally have been moving north and west, Shiites south, and Christians to the far north.
We were in Long Kesh as a result of what happened in 1969, when the unionist government had suppressed the nationalists' civil rights movement and triggered major civil strife.
At most they could have triggered extended civil strife and perhaps civil war, as the armed forces confronted the vast majority of Turks.
The strife, triggered by differences between the Mehsud group (led by Sheheryar Mehsud) and another TTP faction (led by Khan Said Sajna), impeded the peace talks.
Tory MPs said they expected Boris Johnson, the leading Brexit campaigner, to throw his hat into the ring early this week in the race to succeed David Cameron as leader – a move that would trigger months of internal party strife.
Mr Milosevic cannot bring himself even to implement an agreement he signed with Mr Rugova a year ago which would have brought Kosovo's underground education system back, uncurbed, into the state system.Western countries are desperate to avoid the ethnic strife that could trigger further unrest in neighbouring Macedonia, which has a large, unhappy Albanian minority.
That said, even if you avoid mass oppression and strife, even the "best" autocrats trigger countless low-grade petty cruelties that ruin double handfuls of lives every day.
